And the Winner of the Rochester Democratic Primary Election is...

 Probably the incumbent mayor, Lovely A. Warren.

Not because she's a better candidate than her only "serious" opponent, Malik Evans.

She and her crew control most of the City Democratic committees.

Her base of support are to be found in the Black neighborhoods and slums, to whom she has made grandiose promises regarding financial support.

That demographic will insure that she gets elected, never mind the stunning disasters and overwhelming failures she has been responsible for in Rochester over the last eight years. She has brazened them all down.

Even the recent arrest of the mayor's husband, Tim Granison, on drug and weapons charges after the raid on their home, hasn't instilled a sense of shame on the mayor. Her press conference on the very next day was as loud as ever, claiming political motivation behind the timing of the raid and that she has every intention of continuing to run.

For a female, she has a hefty set of brass ones, noticeably absent in her male opponents.

Evans, on the other hand, has has a remarkably underwhelming career on the RCSD Board for ten years, making it the worst performing, most corrupt and financially incompetent school district in NYS and ranks at the bottom of the barrel of the school systems in the entire US.

His four years at an at-large member of Rochester's City Council has been lack-luster and particularly underwhelming, although his election to that office pissed off Mayor Warren and her personal assistant.

They suspected that he only sought the City Council office to use as a stepping stone to run for mayor.

They feared that, as a Black man with some previous political experience (albeit bad), he could draw votes away from Warren in the Black Community.

He was also not a member of Team Gantt, which would have prevented him from running against Mayor Warren although, to do Evans justice, he is not a member of the Morelle faction in local Democratic politics, either.

That is his one positive asset, while team Gantt regards any Black man running against the mayor as a traitor to his race.

That is why she launched her tirade against him, shrieking that he was typical of Black men trying to oppress Black women, ignoring the fact that she has been making stupid political decisions repeatedly over the last eighteen months, starting with her mishandling of the pandemic in the City of Rochester.

Of, course, she was ranting that any man who ran against her was sexist or racist or both.

Evans didn't withdraw from the race, but he has become more mealy-mouthed than ever, whispering political rhetoric consisting of glittering generalities about transparency a lot, not attacking the mayor's numerous failures and incompetence and agreeing with her plans for Rochester.

In short, he has not said why anyone should vote for him. Indeed, why should anyone, except to remove the current mayor.

That's not good enough a reason.

While the media did cover his campaigning in the 19th Ward, which has become largely Black and is Warren's old stomping ground, nobody has seen him elsewhere on the campaign trail.

That's bad.

His campaign managers clearly don't know what they are doing, and Evans isn't savvy enough to realize it.

He, and they, seem frightened by Mayor Warren, whom seemingly nothing can embarrass.

That is why Mayor Warren will win the primary.